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Unmannerly

Definition: Unmannerly

Unmannerly

Adjective

1. Socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unmannerly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonyms: Unmannerly

Synonyms: ill-mannered (adj), rude (adj), unmannered (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unmannerly

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discourtesy

Adjective: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unmannerly

English words defined with "unmannerly": To use one's self. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unmannerly": HOGGISH. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unmannerly

"Unmannerly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Unmannerly" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)60%3202,518
Adjective (general or positive)40%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Unmannerly

Expression using "unmannerly": unmannerly behaviour. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unmannerly

Language Translations for "unmannerly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome), i paedukuar (dark, ignoramus, ill bred, ill mannered, illiberal, indocile, inurbane, mannerless, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unintelligent, unlearned, unnurtured, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, without cultural interests). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unprintable), ‏قليل الكياسة, ‏غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, wild). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неучтив (coarse, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, impolite, mannerless, uncivil, ungracious, unmannered), невъзпитан (cubbish, ill, ill mannered, low, low-bred, mannerless, rude, surly, unbred, underbred, unmannered). (various references)

   

Czech

  

hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unprintable, vulgar). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sivistymätön (ill-bred, uncultured, uneducated), säädytön (immodest, improper, indecent, unseemly), moukkamainen (boorish, loutish), karkeakäytöksinen (ill-mannered). (various references)

   

French

  

mal élevé (unbred), impoli (uncivil), discourtois. (various references)

   

German

  

ungezogen (bad, bad-mannered, ill mannered, impolite, naughtily, naughty, rude). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγενήσ (caddish, coarse, discourteous, heel, ignoble, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, saucy, uncivil, uncourteous, underbred, ungracious, unladylike, unmannered). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

modortalan (bounder, churlish, ill mannered, mannerless, tacky). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rozzo (boorish, churlish, coarse, crude, cubbish, impolite, loutish, rank, rough, rude, rugged, uncouth, unsubtle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

annerlyunmay

   

Portuguese

  

malcriado (ill-bred, insolent, naughty, uncivil, underbred), indelicado (brusque, clumsy, displeasing, gross, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, ungracious), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), descortês (discourteous, displeasing, inurbane, joggly, mannerless, rough, rude, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prost crescut (crude, currish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, churlish, coarse, loutish, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, uncouth, unpolished, with the bark on), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, vulgar). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

невоспитанный (boorish, discourteous, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bred, ill-mannered, low-bred, uncultured, unnurtured). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

mìobhail. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nevaspitan (bad-mannered, churlish, cubbish, malapert, naughty, rude, unbred, uncivil), neuljudan (ill mannered, impolite, rough, rude, unbecoming, uncomely), neučtiv (discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, rude). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

malcriado, mal educado (cubbish, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bread, ill-mannered, impolite, loud). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ohyfsad (caddish, clownish, crude, ill mannered, ill-behaved, low-bred, rude, uncivil, uncouth, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), obelevad (ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bred, ill-mannered), oartig (discourteous, ill mannered, impolite, rude). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unpolished), saygısız (brash, discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, hoggish, impertinent, impious, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, irreverent, rude, stroppy, undutiful, unfilial, ungalant), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), görgüsüz (graceless, ill bred, mannerless, provincial, uncouth, underbred), ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, what a shame). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô lễ; vô giáo dục (unmannered), tính bất lịch sự (immodesty, unmannered, unmannerliness), mất dạy (hairy, hairy-heeled, ill-bred, unbred, ungentlemanly, unmannered). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

di-foes (rude), anfoesgar (rude). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Unmannerly"

Words rhyming with "unmannerly" (pronounced 'Un*man"ner*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Unmannerly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-n-n-n-r-u-y"

-2 letters: mannerly.

-3 letters: numeral, nunnery, unlearn, unmanly.

-4 letters: almner, lanner, laymen, manner, manure, mauler, meanly, namely, nearly, neural, runnel, unreal, uranyl.

-5 letters: annul, early, lamer, larum, layer, learn, leary, leman, lemur, lumen, lunar, manly, marly, mealy, meany, muley, mural, namer, nanny, numen, ramen, realm, relay, reman, renal, rumen, runny, ulema, ulnae, ulnar, unarm, unary, unlay.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-n-n-n-r-u-y"
 

+2 letters: unmanneredly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unmannerly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6D 61 6E 6E 65 72 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    --    .-    -.    -.    .    .-.    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006D 0061 006E 006E 0065 0072 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55807967808071847891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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